- Wrongful Death
- Fraud
- Business DisputesMr. Huerta’s satisfaction as a professional mediator results from helping parties resolve business disputes in a positive, constructive and forward-thinking manner. “I like helping parties move beyond disputes
- Construction Contracts
- Trade Secrets
- Intellectual PropertyHuerta Mediation has facilitated and served as mediator in more than 1000 cases in the past twenty years and has arbitrated dozens of real estate, commercial, trade secret and securities cases. Its staff provides alternative dispute resolution services in English and Spanish (by prior arrangement). The firm skillfully handles a wide variety of employment, private attorney general act (PAGA), wage and hour, business, real estate, securities, and intellectual property law cases relying on attorney, mediator and arbitrator Lawrence A. Huerta’s many years of business, employment, real estate, intellectual property and securities litigation experience.
- Unfair Competition
- Wrongful TerminationHas mediated more than 1000 business, employment, real estate, insurance coverage, securities, trades secrets, defamation and tort cases. Mr. Huerta has mediated more than 500 employment cases, including discrimination, sexual harassment, a nation-wide sexual discrimination and harassment class action, PAGA, wage and hour, and wrongful termination cases. Mr. Huerta serves on the Amercian Arbitration Association (AAA), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the San Diego County Superior Court and the California Department of Insurance Mediation Panels. Mr. Huerta also arbitrates commercial employment, real estate, and securities cases for the AAA and FINRA.
- Employment DiscriminationMr. Huerta has mediated over 950 cases, including over 475 employment discrimination, sexual harassment, PAGA, wage and hour, and wrongful termination cases. Mr. Huerta has mediated more than 25 cases around the country in the Martens v. Smith Barney sexual discrimination and harassment class action administered through Duke University Private Adjudication Center. His firm, Huerta Mediation has contracts to mediate employment and EEO disputes for the United States Forest Service, Navy, Postal Service, and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Huerta Mediation is highly rated by Dun & Bradstreet for delivery of mediation services, and is an A.V. rated law firm by Martindale-Hubbell. Mr. Huerta is the author and presenter of the MCLE course "Why Mediation and What Works Well at Mediation" and published articles "Why Mediation?" and "The Value of Mediation".
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- Sexual HarassmentLawyer Lawrence Huerta was appointed mediator in the notable national class action lawsuit, Martens v. Smith Barney, administered through Duke University. He has mediated more than 25 cases in this class action across the country, involving sexual harassment and sexual discrimination in the workplace. Huerta Mediation has assisted both businesses and employees in resolving over 500 workplace disputes through mediation or arbitration. Mediation can be a particularly effective solution when the problem is communication and trust needs to be built or restored in order for a working relationship
- Real Estate LitigationHuerta Mediation provides alternative dispute resolution services to resolve a wide variety of business, employment, insurance, intellectual property and real estate law disputes. Attorney Lawrence A. Huerta’s thirty-five years of experience in employment business, real estate, and securities litigation provides a sound legal foundation for understanding the nature of your clients’ legal disputes, and prepares him to work in partnership with you to help your client achieve superior results. Huerta Mediation has assisted clients with the following kinds of disputes...
- Premises Liability
- Construction LitigationThe other new and most significant idea of the conference was the increasing use of dispute boards on large construction projects worldwide (typically in excess of $20 million projects), particularly overseas. Dispute boards are increasingly being used proactively and immediately when disputes in construction arise, rather than waiting to compound the size and amount of potential disputes in the future. Dispute boards are being designated within the construction contracts, and even paid for by the parties as part of the construction contract.
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- Personal InjuryHuerta Mediation provides mediation and arbitration services for the legal, human resources, and business communities. For the past twenty years, Huerta Mediation has been empowering lawyers and their clients to achieve interest based, efficient resolutions of their business, employment, real estate, intellectual property, securities, tort, personal injury, and insurance cases. This is achieved in part by a process which provides parties with the opportunity to be heard and understood, to identify and define risks of litigation, and to develop creative, interest based resolutions.
- Estate PlanningHuerta Mediation is pleased to announce Mediator, Arbitrator and Attorney Lawrence Huerta took and passed the California Real Estate Brokers Exam in February, 2006 and obtained his California Real Estate Brokers License in March, 2006. Mr. Huerta's primary purpose in taking the Brokers Exam and obtaining the Real Estate Brokers License was to continue to develop his Mediation, Arbitration, and Alternative Dispute Resolution practice. Since graduating from the University of Michigan Law School and passing the California Bar Exam in 1983, Mr. Huerta has twenty five years of business and real estate litigation experience. Mr. Huerta mediates and arbitrates real estate cases through Huerta Mediation, and through the American Arbitration Association Commercial Arbitration and Mediation panels.
- TrustsWhy Mediation? Mediation can help clients who have sustained losses arising out of a breach of professional responsibility. They are seeking to recoup some of their losses attributed to a breach of duty and are seeking justice and closure so they can move on with their life after a substantial loss. Claimants include individuals, corporations, and charitable trusts, among others.